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poifit , the change of one particle for anoth er , or a slight variation in the formation of a letter , say whether , without the constant interposition of a divine , power , it was possible to expect perfect copies of a work which for many ages was preserved in
manuscript alone . As for those who start at the idea of errors in our translation of the volume of truth , I beg le&ve to refer them to Locked Chapter on the Imperfection of Words , when they must either admit that King Janes s translators were inspired , or that the text of their Bible is a fair ^ h wt for examination
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ken spirit : a broken and a contrite heart , O God , thou wilt not despise . " Isa . i . 11—20 . " To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord : I am full of the
burnt-offeriugs of rams , and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks , or of Iambs , or of he-goats . * * * Bring no more vain oblations : incense is an
abomination unto me , the new moons and sabbaths , the calling of assemblies , I cannot away with : it is iniquity , even the solemn meeting . Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth : they are a trouble unto mej 1 am weary fro bear them . * * *
Wash you , make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes : ceatse to do evil , learn to do well ; seek judgment ; relieve the oppressed ; judge the fatherless ; plead for the widow . Come , now , let us reason together , saith the
Lord : Though your sins be as scarlet , they shall be as white as snow ; though they be red as crimson , the }' shall be as wool . If ye be willing and obedient , ye shall eat the good of the land : But if ye refuse and rebel , ye shall be devoured with the sword :
For the mouth of the Lord hatla spoken it . " Kos . vi . 6 . " For I desired mercy and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings . "
1 Sam . xv . 22 . " And Samuel said , Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices , as in obeying the voice of the Lord . Behold , to obey is better than sacrifice , and to hear than the fat of rams . '
Psa . ]> g . " I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices , or thy burnt-offerings to have been continually before me . " Amos v . 21—24 . " - I hate , I despise your feast-days , and 1 will not smell in your solemn assemblies . Though ye offer me burnt-offerings , and your
meat-offerings , 1 will not accept them ; neither will 1 regard the peace-offerings of your fat beasts . Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs ; for I will wot hear the melody of thy viols . But let judgment " run down as waters , and righteousness as a mighty stream . "
Jer . vi . 20 . " To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Slicbaa arid the sweet cawe from a far
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The Doctrine of the Atonement & Jewish Error , 415
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, . DANIEL HARWOOD . Serjt . 45 th Regt . Snt , June \ % 1815 . IT appears to me , from numerous passages in the Old Testameut , that the Jews very generally mistook the nature of those sacrifices
which in the law of Moses they were commanded to offer , and that the mistake into which they fell was very similar to the prevailing notions concerning the doctrine of the
atonement among Christians . They supposed that the sacrifices which they offered were accepted with God as a valuable consideration- —an equivalent for defective obedience or actual
transgression , and consequently , that they made a sufficient atonement for their sins " when they offered the sacrifices appointed by the law : and in this error of the Jews , probably , originated the modern doctrine of
atoneroeht . I infer that this error existed , from the marked and peculiar strain of the passages in which the sacred writers make the most solemn protests againfst the prevailing corrup-^ n . If the passages which I shall
quote will warrant my assertion , we * nust allow that the sacred writers adopted the heretical side of the quest » n against the general current of opi nion , and that they probably ebto jned no great success against those *« o proudly exulted in their nuwioers and reputed orthodoxy . T tiut I will now proceed to produce e passages themselves , to which m more might be added . ™ alm li . 10 , 17 , " For thou d <> - tfest not sacrifice , else would I give «de % « test not in burnt-offcr-R S- T The ' Bacrificea of God are abro-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/15/
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